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Activists spent years preparing for a communications blackout, smuggling in Starlink systems and making digital shutdowns harder for the authorities to enforce.

Israeli and Arab officials fear Iran would retaliate by striking their countries.

Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling further behind their global peers.

Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela’s interior minister, is accused by U.S. prosecutors of drug trafficking and is linked to repression at home.

Six months after President Trump told Wall Street banks to prepare an offering, there is no firm plan for how to take the giant mortgage firms public.

The Trump administration has signed $11 billion in agreements with African nations, in deals tied to foreign policy goals.

Some Black and Latino leaders worry they are being denied access to power under Mayor Zohran Mamdani and that they may lose the ground they had gained.

Roughly 8,400 businesses closed in the second quarter of 2025, recent data shows, creating the largest net decline in business activity since before the pandemic.